Saving LA: March 18th

Brady Westwater (and his NC) is putting on a conference to Save LA. The event is this Sunday, March 18th, at the Los Angeles Theater on Broadway in Downtown. There's a website devoted to it here.

Is this kind of conference what it will take to Save LA?

Here's what he's sent out:

SAVING LOS ANGELES CONFERENCE!

On Sunday March 18th, 2007 the Downtown Los Angeles Neighborhood Council will hold a free conference on how to save Los Angeles’ physical, cultural and social history. It will be co-sponsored by citywide Los Angeles Neighborhood Councils Congress (LANCC), the City of Los Angeles Planning Department and the Los Angeles Conservancy with the aid of the Getty Institute.

The conference will be on Sunday March 18th from 10 AM – 4 PM in the historic 1931 Los Angeles Theatre at 615 S. Broadway in downtown LA. City Planning Director, Gail Goldberg, will speak in the main auditorium of the theater at 11:15 AM on how the city can assist neighborhoods in preserving their historic elements among other pertinent issues. Ken Bernstein – head of historic preservation in the city’s planning department - will next discuss the citywide historic resources study funded by the Getty Institute. Other seminars will cover neighborhood preservation issues such as HPOZ’s, Mansionization and financial incentives for historic preservation.

Equally importantly, there will be dozens of booths where every aspect of historic preservation will be discussed such as how to preserve the histories of all the ethnic, racial and cultural groups of Los Angeles along with how to record and preserve individual, family and neighborhood histories.

Books on LA’s history and historic preservation will be for sale, books signings will held, and several displays of Los Angeles historic memorabilia will be on view – including a the first sneak mini-preview of the new Los Angeles Museum – the first museum in the city’s history devoted to the history of all of Los Angeles.

For more information and updates, go to www.SavingLA.blogspot.com or contact Brady Westwater at bradywestwater@gmail.com.